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A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

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That’s significant in an era when college leaders are concerned about attracting and retaining students who may be skeptical about the value of a degree and also worried about the impending “ enrollment cliff ” resulting from fewer Americans of traditional college age coming up in the next few years.

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

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But students aren’t the only ones who lose out from a one-size-fits-all high school approach. A startling 3 million skilled trades jobs will sit unfilled by 2028. Voc-techs enroll more special needs students than traditional Bay State high schools, and those students show impressive academic growth from ninth grade on.

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Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

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Class of 2028 supplemental essay prompt. The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. So, how can schools help students overcome these challenges?

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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

Whereas traditional, standardized teaching models work for motivated students, they often leave less motivated or struggling students behind, he says. “A The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”. Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School.